Paths of Love: The Discernment of Vocation

Here you will find all the authors cited or mentioned in the book Paths of Love: The Discernment of Vocation According to Aquinas, Ignatius, and Pope John Paul II. By clicking on an author's name you will find the texts of that author. In most cases larger selections of texts are provided than were suitable to quote in the book.

• Texts of the Holy Scripture

• Fathers of the Church

• • St. Augustine of Hippo
  • St. Basil of Caesarea
  • St. Bernard of Clairveaux - see also his complete work On the Love of God, or the Latin text De Diligendo Deo
  • St. Gregory the Great
  • St. Jerome
  • St. John Chrysostom

• Doctors of the Church

• • St. Alphonsus de Liguori
  • St. Francis de Sales
  • St. Ignatius Loyola
  • St. Teresa of Avila
  • St. Thomas Aquinas - See also texts of Aquinas on religious vocation and an article on the nature of vocation according to Aquinas
  • St. Thérèse of Lisieux - See also texts of Therese of Lisieux on Love

• Popes and other Vatican sources

• • Catechism of the Catholic Church
  • Pope Pius X
  • Pope Pius XI
  • Pope Pius XII
  • Pope Paul VI
  • Pope John Paul II (also his writing before he became pope)
  • Pope Benedict XVI
  • Sacred Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life
  • Vatican Council II

• Other spiritual writers or theologians

• • Br. Lawrence of the Resurrection
• • Fr. Richard Butler
  • Jean Pierre de Caussade
  • Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Thomas à Kempis